Ego vs Ergo

Last year I took an absolutely fascinating class with Dr Natasha Artemeva in the applied linguistics domain of rhetorical genre studies. In this class we discussed, essentially, the function(s) of language in different contexts. For example, we examined such things as tax reports, blog comments, and the construction of academic papers in mathematics. One thing that struck ...

In a recent correspondence published in the journal Nature (Nature 452, 530 (3 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452530d; Published online 2 April 2008) titled "Give south Indian authors their true names", three scientists–Nalini, Jeevananthinee, and Sujatha–emplore the journal essentially to discontinue their requirement to give first and family names. This is due to the non-universal naming system used in most Western ...